my job is not just to entertain you, but to teach you and educate you on days like today to figure out what it means. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. every day during earnings season, we take the measure of the market and we make a judgment, a judgment on the future. today with the dow plummeting 129 points, s&p sinking 0.62%, and the nasdaq giving up 0.43%, we judge the future negatively. but how did we reach that judgment? how did we reach that point total? it's almost like a sports match express eed math cali. the averages would be nothing happens with individual companies or with governments and central banks. that's the so-called micro, the companies, and the macro, which are the governments. so we've got a flat line here, okay? that's how every day starts. of course, something does happen every day, which is why we are almost never flat, typically on days where central government or banks squawk newsom sort of data. so let's just presume we're never going to be in zero. then we get to earnings season and the equation changes dramatically. we get really granular. we extrapolate the